"A major strength of this new work is that it encompasses both the spatial and the historical dimensions of transnationalism in France.”<br />Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University
"This book constitutes a remarkably powerful and necessary intervention which will find its place alongside other recent attempts at challenging narrow and stereotypical understandings of French culture. This critical intervention is a very welcome contribution to the efforts aimed at asserting France’s intrinsic diversity."<br />Etienne Achille, Villanova University
Charles Forsdick and Claire Launchbury
PART I: LANGUAGE
Introduction
Charles Forsdick
Chapter 1: Transnational French before the nation
Simon Gaunt
Chapter 2: Frenches on walls and online
Robert Blackwood
Chapter 3: Transnational French and Translingual Film
Gemma King
Chapter 4: Reading British Fiction in France: The Case of Jonathan Coe
Helena Chadderton
Chapter 5: Unbearable
yasser elhariry
PART II: SPACES
Introduction
Claire Launchbury
Chapter 6: The French Hexagon: Defining the Shape of the Nation
Douglas Smith
Chapter 7: Transnational fraternité
Claire Launchbury
Chapter 8: Paris and London Calling: the restaurant as transnational site
Debra Kelly
Chapter 9: The ‘Real’ Capital of France: ‘Authentic’ ‘Colourful’ Marseille
Chong Bertillon
Chapter 10: French and Francophone Videogames in Transnational Perspective
Hugh Dauncey and Jonathan Ervine
PART III: TEMPORALITIES
Introduction
Charles Forsdick
Chapter 11: Imagined Communities of Prehistory
Bill Marshall
Chapter 12: Translating Revolutionary Language
Sanja Perovic
Chapter 13: Beyond a national memory of slavery and abolition
Charles Forsdick
Chapter 14: French Museums, Where the World Meets
Herman Lebovics
Chapter 15: Transnational Memory: Art, Ethics and Politics in La Seine était rouge (Leila Sebbar, 1999) and Je Veux voir (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2008)
Max Silverman
Chapter 16: Transnational Utopianism in French Futuristic Fiction: From Mercier’s L’An 2440 (1771) to Houellebecq’s Soumission (2015)
Jacqueline Dutton
PART IV: SUBJECTIVITIES
Introduction
Claire Launchbury
Chapter 17: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century France
Richard Hibbitt
Chapter 18: Laïcité and belonging: Transnational Perspectives
Melanie Adrian
Chapter 19: French Food and Wine as Moveable Feast
Kolleen M. Guy
Chapter 20: Transnational approaches to language and sexuality
Denis M. Provencher
Chapter 21: Bande Dessinée: The Ninth Art of France that is not really French
Laurence Grove
Notes on Contributors